Leopold VI of Austria

Leopold VI "the Glorious", Duke of Austria (1176-28 July 1230) was Duke of Austria from 1198 to 1230, succeeding Frederick I of Austria.

Biography
Leopold was born in 1176, the son of Duke Leopold V of Austria and Helena of Hungary, and in 1192 he was enfeoffed with Austria and Styria by his father. On his father's deathbed, he was granted the Duchy of Swabia with the blessing of Henry VI of Germany, and he had to deal with the issue of restitution for the ransom money of King Richard the Lionheart, whom his father had captured in 1193. Leopold sent back the hostages and decided to take on the penance of another crusade, taking up the cross at Bari, Italy on 31 March 1195. However, Pope Celestine III disapproved of this, preventing Leopold from leading a new crusade against the Ayyubids.